This evening 30-35 Pallid swift (Apus pallidus) are back in their colony in "Torre di Calafuria" Tuscany, central Italy. Common swift are back too. Giorgio...
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The most beautiful of birds: a pair of Barn Swallows arrived in western Kentucky yesterday, April 1, about 3:30 p.m. Tired from their long journey, they were...
Hi All, I'm just back from a short birding trip to north-east Germany guided by Jochen Roeder and rather surprisingly we found an early Barn Swallow battling...
On a sunny but pretty cool, windy day with lots of sun and also lots of icy showers, I heard my first summer migrant up on Hampstead Heath in North London. Not...
Dear all, I am a researcher at Princeton University who has been studying H. rustica in North America. For comparative purposes, I am interested in finding...
Dear Swift & Martin Friends, At last, some news of migrant hirundines! Warmer weather brought the first Swallow (Hirundo rustica) (on the 28th March ) and Sand...
Dear Everyone, we saw our first pair of Swallows on 3-4-06, flying round the yard, inspecting their nests in the shed and barn at Old Willand, near Cullompton,...
Sand Martins reported in N Ireland this week along with Wheatears Oenanthe oenanthe, Sandwich Terns Sterna sandvicensis and Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus ... ...
Dear Swift Colleagues, I was alerted by Gabriele Schaden to the existence of this article, which describes experiments on young Swifts to find out how they...
Hello Edward, Gabriele, Ulrich and other swiftfans. I too sent an e-mail. Why would anyone want to hurt the nestlings to find our what we already know....
Hi All, I was just in California and got good close views of a small flock of Nthn Rough-winged Swallows Stelgidopteryx serripennis, which were feeding in the...
Hello Charlie, Why are they called rough-winged? They look rather smooth to me, the wings that is. I think they look lovely. Thanks for the pictures, it is a...
Many birdwatchers in local mailing lists refere about first Common swifts in the sky of many cities here in northern Italy (Padova, Modena, Treviso...). Since...
Gorgeous photos of the Rough-winged Swallows, Charlie! Many thanks for showing them to us. All the best, Edward ps I do believe the birds actually do have...
exciting news! 3 House Martins are back in my housing estate. What a day to choose it's only 10c 50F Mark N Ireland [Non-text portions of this message have...
Beste vogelvrienden, Op WDR-5, een gerenomeerd onderdeel van de West-Deutsche-Rundfunk, een publieke radio-omroep in het druk bevolkte Nordrhein-Westfalen was...
Hi George, You are completely right and I have to apologize now! Blindly assuming I was on my Dutch swiftforum, as a kind of mistake, I wrote my " Dutch"...
Hello Harm, Gooten Tag Thanks for the transcript précis. We have some people over here who say stupid things about H5N1 too! On television this week a noted...
Dear SMS members, Just to note that I saw my first Swallows of 2006 (Hirundo rustica) on Saturday 8th April, at the RSPB Dungeness Reserve in Kent, in sunny...
Hi Marleen, They also have things called rough-winged swallows in Africa. Many years ago I caught a Fanti Rough-winged Swallow (fabulous glossy all black...
I am back from a two week birding trip in the north-west province(BAMENDA).I started with Mt.OKU which is situated in the Bamenda highlands and reached I got...
I received the following from a lady in Italy, whose heart is obviously in the right place. Is the bird a partial albino I wonder, or is its plumage an ...
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